Don’t they have a stove or hotplate? I found that turning on the oven helps. So does boiling a pin pot of water. At any rate, Rye should have been exerted by putting on all those layers and be warmed up by now. A run outside would help.
I can identify with Ryan’s plight. I lived for many years along the coast of California, including Salinas, and Monterey. The humidity there makes the cold so intense that it is virtually impossible to keep warm. The cold just seeps into your bones.
It’s sort of relative, too… If you lived in say… Florida and then moved to a place like Monterey, you’d say it was COLD. I moved to this area from San Diego. Luckily I moved to Santa Cruz first… where it gets a bit warmer… so the jump warn’t too bad (there was a stint in colder Aptos… but that’s another story).
EofO… they gots a microwave… I don’t suggest warming yourself in the microwave.
Brig: Okay, they have a microwave. They can make warming pads with them. No sew! Just use a mismated sock with no holes, fill with white rice, tie securely. Pop into nuker for about 45 seconds and it becomes a nifty, thrifty way to warm hands, feet, whatever.
I don’t know, Ryan seems to be the type who does whatever he sees as necessary to get the job done. He would have made a great Medic, but those are Navy.
I can see someone like him carrying a firearm, but he’s your character.
Don’t they have a stove or hotplate? I found that turning on the oven helps. So does boiling a pin pot of water. At any rate, Rye should have been exerted by putting on all those layers and be warmed up by now. A run outside would help.
Nice job on the whiskersicles.
Who needs to sit when the sheer volume of your many pairs of leg coverings props you up anyway?
I can identify with Ryan’s plight. I lived for many years along the coast of California, including Salinas, and Monterey. The humidity there makes the cold so intense that it is virtually impossible to keep warm. The cold just seeps into your bones.
It’s sort of relative, too… If you lived in say… Florida and then moved to a place like Monterey, you’d say it was COLD. I moved to this area from San Diego. Luckily I moved to Santa Cruz first… where it gets a bit warmer… so the jump warn’t too bad (there was a stint in colder Aptos… but that’s another story).
EofO… they gots a microwave… I don’t suggest warming yourself in the microwave.
Dave… Stay-puff marshmallow man comes to mind.
Lee A… you could come back for a visit some time…
“My kid brother looked like a tick, ready to pop.”
Randy: “I can’t put my arms down!”
Mom: “Well… put your arms down when you get to school.”
A Christmas Story 1983
Love the whisker icicles. Miss the breath clouds. Can’t have it all.
For shared warmth, Rye could have just stuffed Twinks under his USMC pull-over.
Funny, he doesn’t look like the Marine type. That non-issue hair and wimpy arms just don’t cry out, “inspired, improvisational, killing-machine.”
Pete… Yup… I was thinking of that, too.
stick… Yes… the USMC hoodie is bit of Ryan’s history I haven’t touched on yet. Hmmm…. it’s not a secret, but maybe I’ll let it come out in the story.
Yes, I looked at the “USMC” hoodie and said Ryan a marine? Never!
Brig: Okay, they have a microwave. They can make warming pads with them. No sew! Just use a mismated sock with no holes, fill with white rice, tie securely. Pop into nuker for about 45 seconds and it becomes a nifty, thrifty way to warm hands, feet, whatever.
When layering you want the outer layers to be loose.
If they are the same size, it can, in fact, be dangerous because the inner layers can constrict the blood flow.
EofO… Really? you can do the rice and it’s okay? Hint taken then for Randie and Ryan.
Squidman… no, Ryan wouldn’t be Marine Corps material. He’d read all the manuals, and could keep up on “hikes”, but would never hold a gun.
Mary… bloodflow-good… non bloodflow-bad. Layer with caution, y’all.
Thankfully I’m comfy and cozy in my apartment. It’s colder than whatever at work in the mornings, but I put that down more to the Fourth Law of Thermodynamics ( http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/101705/fourth-law.gif ).
ahhh…ryan didn’t complete basic, did he?
I don’t know, Ryan seems to be the type who does whatever he sees as necessary to get the job done. He would have made a great Medic, but those are Navy.
I can see someone like him carrying a firearm, but he’s your character.